William ii



(No Model.)

W. H. MOORE.

HORSESHOE. No. 468,252. Patented Feb. 2, I892.

WIT/z 633 as Men for /@w MW f mwfimw. %;;m V w" UNITED STATES PATENTOFFICE.

\VILLIAM II. MOORE, OI OIVEN SOUND, CANADA.

HORSESHOE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 468,252, dated February2, 1892.

Application filed April 22. 1891. Serial No. 389,957. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that LNVILLIAM HENRY MOORE, of the town of Owen Sound, inthe county of Grey, in the Province of Ontario, Canada, have invented acertain new and useful Improvement in Horseshoes, of which the followingis a specification.

The object of the invention is to design a horseshoe which willeffectually prevent a horse interfering; and it consists in the peculiarconstruction, arrangement, and combinations of parts hereinafter moreparticularly described and then definitely claimed.

Figure 1 is a perspective bottom View of my improved shoe, and Fig. 2 isa perspective top view of same.

It is scarcely necessary to remark that my improved shoe is intendedonly for the hind feet of a horse.

The drawing A represents the toecalk, which is set at an angle slantingbackwardly toward the outside B of the shoe. This outside, it will beobserved, is made thicker than the inside 0, and the heel-call: D,formed on the outside 13, extends farther back than the heel-call: D andis flared outwardly. As the outside B of the shoe is slightly heavierthan the inside 0, it will naturally come in contact with the groundfirst, and owing to the form of the heel-calk D the foot of the horsewill be held stationary while the other foot is passing. Owing to theangle at which the toe-call: A is setthat is to say, its outer endinclined backwardlythe horse, in springing from its toe, will naturallyhave its foot thrown outwardly by sliding on the slanting toe-calk A.The foot will thus be thrown outwardly sufficiently far to prevent itsstriking the other foot in passing.

I am aware that it has been proposed to extend the toe of horseshoes ononeside and to set a toe-call; on said extension at an angle slightlydeparting from a right angle with a line drawn through the longitudinalcenter of said shoe, as shown in the Patent No. 170,809, and I make noclaim to this, broadly, nor to anything shown in said patent, as Iconsider my invention as essentially different from the shoe showntherein, for by my construction I use a shoe of the usual shape in frontinstead of the awkward-looking shoe which results from extending theshoe on one side in front. Moreover, in my shoe the outward and backwardextension of the heel-call: has a greater effect than the toe, becausethis portion of the shoe touches the ground first, and I thereforeconsider the extension of the heelcalk rearwardly and outwardly as animpor' tant part of my invention.

Vhat I claim as my invention is- 1. A horseshoe round at the toe andhaving its toe-call: set near the center of the front of the shoe and atan angle pointing outwardly and backwardly, substantially as described.

2. A horseshoe round at the toe and having a toe-call: set near thecenter of the front thereof at an angle pointing outwardly andbackwardly, the outside of the shoe being heavier than the inside andits heel flared...

outwardly and rearwardly and beyond the heel-calk on the inside of theshoe, substantially as described.

Toronto, April 3, 1891.

"ILLIAM II. MOORE.

In presence of CHARLES C. BALDWIN, JOHN E. CAMERON.

